Chris Eldridge – Let Him Go On Mama chords

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[Verse 1]
G                                            DWell he likes black coffee, fried eggs and a well done T-bone steak
D                                                      C                     GHe likes a red dress and pearly white teeth and the flash of her pretty brown legs
         C                            GHe said back in the '30s, you know you never had it made
   A7                                       DHe worked as an engineer on the Ohio river, working for the Pittsburgh trade


[Verse 2]
G                                             DAt the inspection office in Louisville he had a desk for a very short time
D                                               C                      GAnd he played in a band on two different boats working for the Strackfus line
    C                               GAnd long ago he smoked reefer and he even made home brew
       A7                                 DAnd the reefer come in through New Orleans back before World War II


[Chorus]
 G                                        DHe's just a feller worked on the river, All his life by a paddle wheel
D                                    C             GYou say he's old fashioned, Well that ain't no big deal
    C                                 GWell it's too thick to navigate, And it's too thin to plow
   G            D                G       D          GSo let him go on mama and don't put him down for it now


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[Verse 3]
 G                                           DWell he smokes an old I-bolt cigar, Says he doesn't miss it at all
D                                                     C                   GBut he still goes out and he makes a few trips in the summer and in the fall
       C                                        GOh, the railroad trains, the bus and planes are picking up the slack
    A7                              DHe's watching all those river towns slowly turn their backs


[Chorus]
 G                                        DHe's just a feller worked on the river, All his life by a paddle wheel
D                                    C             GYou say he's old fashioned, Well that ain't no big deal
    C                                 GWell it's too thick to navigate, And it's too thin to plow
   G            D                G       D          GSo let him go on mama and don't put him down for it now


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[Verse 4]
G                                                         DWell he comes from a real old-time way of life, He had to fight to just learn how
D                                                  C                  GAnd he might even have voted for Nixon once but I'm sure he sees that now
     C                                    GWell Friday night he makes the best damn Gumbo you'd ever want to eat
     A7                                       DAnd Saturday morning 'fore everyone's up, he's gone off down to the fleet


[Chorus]
 G                                        DHe's just a feller worked on the river, All his life by a paddle wheel
D                                    C             GYou say he's old fashioned, Well that ain't no big deal
    C                                 GWell it's too thick to navigate, And it's too thin to plow
   G            D                G       D          GSo let him go on mama and don't put him down for it now


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[Verse 5]
G                                           DYou're as pretty as he is ugly and he's the happiest man alive
D                                     C                 GSomehow you got him thinking that old men are back in style
     C                                        GNow you see these Oysters Bienville and this baked potato skin
    A7                               DI eat 'em so I can grow up an' be, an old man just like him


[Chorus]
 G                                        DHe's just a feller worked on the river, All his life by a paddle wheel
D                                    C             GYou say he's old fashioned, Well that ain't no big deal
    C                                 GWell it's too thick to navigate, And it's too thin to plow
   G            D                G       D          GSo let him go on mama and don't put him down for it now


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